A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | |
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Directed by |
Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
Produced by |
Florence Dauman Martin Scorsese |
Written by |
Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
Starring | Martin Scorsese |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Cinematography |
Jean-Yves Escoffier Frances Reid Nancy Schreiber |
Edited by |
Kenneth Levis David Lindblom |
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Running time | 225 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute.
In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller; the director as an illusionist: D.W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on; the director as a smuggler— filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films; and the director as an iconoclast, those filmmakers attacking social conventionalism — Charles Chaplin, Erich von Stroheim, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.
The documentary is structured in segments:
- Part I
- The director's dilemma
- The director as storyteller
- The Western
- The Gangster film
- The Musical
- Part II
- The director as illusionist
- The director as smuggler I
- Part III
- The director as smuggler II
- The director as iconoclast
It was originally shown in three parts on Channel 4 in the UK in 1995.
Films mentioned
(Roughly in the order of the appearance.)
--Part I--
- The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952, directed by Vincente Minnelli
- Duel in the Sun, nicknamed "Lust in the Dust", 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, William Dieterle and others
- The Girl Can't Help It, 1956 Musical film directed by Frank Tashlin
- Bigger Than Life, 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray
- Vertigo, 1958 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Naked Kiss, 1964 neo-noir film written and directed by Samuel Fuller
- Murder by Contract, 1958 film noir directed by Irving Lerner
- The Red House, 1947 psychological thriller directed by Delmer Daves
- The Phenix City Story, 1955 film noir directed by Phil Karlson
- Sullivan's Travels, 1941 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges
- The Crowd, 1928 silent film directed by King Vidor
- The Big Parade, 1925 silent film directed by King Vidor
- Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939, directed by Frank Capra
- The Great Train Robbery, 1903 Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, directed by D. W. Griffith
- High Sierra, 1941, directed by Raoul Walsh
- Colorado Territory, 1949 western film directed by Raoul Walsh (a remake of the 1941 High Sierra)
- Stagecoach, 1939 western film directed by John Ford
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949 western film directed by John Ford
- The Searchers, 1956 western film directed by John Ford
- The Furies, 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann
- The Naked Spur, 1953 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann
- The Tall T, 1957 Western film directed by Budd Boetticher
- The Left Handed Gun, 1958 American western film and the film directorial debut of Arthur Penn
- Unforgiven, 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood
- Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend, 1971 documentary directed by John Ford
- The Public Enemy, 1931 American Pre-Code crime film directed by William A. Wellman
- Regeneration, 1915, directed by Raoul Walsh
- Scarface, 1932 American gangster film directed by Howard Hawks (and Richard Rosson)
- The Roaring Twenties, 1939 crime thriller directed by Raoul Walsh
- I Walk Alone, 1948 film noir directed by Byron Haskin.
- Force of Evil, 1948 film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky
- Point Blank, 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman
- Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935 musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley
- Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley
- 42nd Street, 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley
- Footlight Parade, 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley
- Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli
- My Dream Is Yours, 1949 musical and comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz
- New York, New York, 1977 musical directed by Martin Scorsese (film mentioned in connection with My Dream Is Yours)
- The Band Wagon, 1953 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli
- A Star Is Born, 1954 musical film directed by George Cukor
- All That Jazz, 1979 musical film directed by Bob Fosse
—Part II--
- The Cameraman, 1928 silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Buster Keaton
- The Birth of a Nation, 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
- Death's Marathon, 1913 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
- Cabiria, 1914 Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone
- Intolerance, 1916 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Ten Commandments (1923), 1923 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Samson and Delilah, 1949, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- The Ten Commandments (1956), 1956, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau
- Seventh Heaven, 1927 silent film directed by Frank Borzage
- Anna Christie, 1930, directed by Clarence Brown
- Her Man, 1930, directed by Tay Garnett
- The Big House, 1930, directed by George W. Hill
- Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 film noir directed by John M. Stahl
- Johnny Guitar, 1954 Western film directed by Nicholas Ray
- The Robe, 1953 Biblical epic film directed by Henry Koster
- East of Eden, 1955, directed by Elia Kazan
- Some Came Running, 1958, directed by Vincente Minnelli
- Land of the Pharaohs, 1955, directed and produced by Howard Hawks
- The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964, directed by Anthony Mann
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, American television series from 4 March 1992 to 24 July 1993, created and executively produced by George Lucas, directed by Steven Spielberg
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Cat People, 1942 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur
- I Walked with a Zombie, 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur
- Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948 film directed by Max Ophüls, based on the novella written by Stefan Zweig
- Scarlet Street, 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang
- Detour, 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
- Double Indemnity, 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder
- Crime Wave, 1954 film noir directed by André De Toth
- Outrage, 1950, directed by noted film noir actress and pioneering female director Ida Lupino
- Gun Crazy, 1950 film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis
- T-Men, 1947 film noir directed by Anthony Mann
- Raw Deal, 1948 film noir directed by Anthony Mann
- Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 film noir directed by Robert Aldrich
—Part III--
- Silver Lode, 1954, directed by Allan Dwan
- All That Heaven Allows, 1955, directed by Douglas Sirk
- Bigger Than Life, 1956, directed by Nicholas Ray
- Forty Guns, 1957 western film directed by Samuel Fuller
- Pickup on South Street, 1953 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller
- Shock Corridor, 1963, directed by Samuel Fuller
- Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962, directed by Vincente Minnelli
—The Director as Iconoclast--
- Broken Blossoms, 1919 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Wedding March, 1928 silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932, directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- Hell's Highway, 1932, directed by Rowland Brown
- Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, directed by William Wellman
- Heroes for Sale, 1933, directed by William Wellman
- The Scarlet Empress, 1934, directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg
- Citizen Kane, 1941, directed by and starring Orson Welles
- The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, directed and written by Orson Welles
- The Great Dictator, 1940, directed by Charlie Chaplin
- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951, directed by Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront, 1954, directed by Elia Kazan
- Apache, 1954, directed by Robert Aldrich
- Blackboard Jungle, 1955, directed by Richard Brooks
- The Wild One, 1953, Directed by László Benedek
- Advise & Consent, 1962, directed by Otto Preminger
- Paths of Glory, 1957, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- I Want to Live!, 1958 film noir directed by Robert Wise
- The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955, directed by Otto Preminger
- Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 film noir directed by Alexander Mackendrick
- One, Two, Three, 1961 comedy directed by Billy Wilder
- Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, directed by Arthur Penn
- Lolita, 1962, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Barry Lyndon, 1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Faces, 1968, directed by John Cassavetes
- America America, 1963, directed by Elia Kazan
- The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, directed by John Ford